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It's really helpful when you have many desperate systems which all hit the same API in different ways. We've built a more custom solution to hit some existing d
by waterfoul 8y ago
It's really helpful when you have many desperate systems which all hit the same API in different ways. We've built a more custom solution to hit some existing databases and this style of system will be reducing the need for as much custom c# code on each back end. It's also SUPER useful because it will auto-gen the types for our api calls and we no longer have to hand write them. I do see your point though, for existing apps which alreayd have the infrastructure in place this style of system is not as helpful, it's mostly geared at new development and common apis
- isoos 8y agoThere are many ways that one can define a custom, narrow interface for a service, and automatically generate client code, server stub, and for many cases even database access codes. GraphQL is one of them, it may be one of the not-too-lame ones, but for most practical purposes, it doesn't seem to be clearly better than the average toolkit.